Answer:
The problem is that the pumps would consume more energy than the generators would produce.
Explanation:
Water has a potential energy associated with the height it is at. The higher it is, the higher the potential energy. When water flows down into the turbines that energy is converted to kinetic energy and then into electricity.
A pump uses electricity to add energy to the water to send it to a higher potential energy state.
Ideally no net energy woul be hgenerate or lost, because the generators would release the potential energy and pumps would store it again in the water. However the systems are not ideal, everything has an efficiency and losses. The losses would accumulate and the generator would be generating less energy than the pumps consume, so that system wastes energy.
What should be done is closing the floodgates to keep the water up in the dam at night producing only the power that is needed and releasing more water during the day.
Solution :
Given :
The power of the air‐conditioning (AC) unit is , W = 0.434 kW
The coefficient of performance or the COP of the air‐conditioning (AC) unit is given by = 6.22
Therefore he heat removed is given by , 

Now if the electricity is valued at 0.10 dollar per kW hour, then the operating cost of the air conditioning unit in 24 hours is given by = 0.10 x 2.7 x 24
= 6.48
Therefore the operating cost = $ 6.48 for 24 hours.